Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 2 | I ca n't remember now , but I still love it and continue to be amazed every time I see it in a catalogue for it seeds itself as freely as any common plantain . |
| 3 | From the moment that Grimes renounces salvation ( in everything but his actual words ) the theme pursues him as relentlessly as ever the Furies pursued Orestes . |
| 4 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 5 | The countryman takes a great interest in the weather : he has to because his living is bound up with it ; and he observes it as closely as a scientist watching a long and intricate experiment . |
| 6 | He throws it as hard as he can . |
| 7 | I must be precise here : the woman forgot how to hate him — the child feels it as keenly as ever . |
| 8 | Gollum explains them as materialistically as possible . |
| 9 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |
| 10 | I know you never considered Madeleine was the right girl for me and no one in this whole world knows me as well as you do , so I ca n't ignore your opinion , even though I 'd like to . |
| 11 | When the person throws the ball , the batter hits it as far as possible and then sets off to run round the obstacle placed at right angles . |
| 12 | It was a part of becoming adult that I grew aware of the great invisible universe of personality which controls us as surely as do physical laws . |